CVE-2019-10183 (GCVE-0-2019-10183)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-07-03 13:36 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:10
VLAI
Summary
Virt-install(1) utility used to provision new virtual machines has introduced an option '--unattended' to create VMs without user interaction. This option accepts guest VM password as command line arguments, thus leaking them to others users on the system via process listing. It was introduced recently in the virt-manager v2.2.0 release.
Severity
3.2 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109027 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3464 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat virt-install Affected: from virt-manager v2.2.0
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